Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry : with Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art

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Roberts Brothers, 1880 - 250 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 151 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother?
الصفحة 152 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
الصفحة 152 - Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base?
الصفحة 203 - ... agmine certo Laocoonta petunt ; et primum parva duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus ; 215 post ipsum, auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem, corripiunt, spirisque ligant ingentibus ; et jam bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
الصفحة 152 - Why bastard ? wherefore base ? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base? with baseness ? bastardy? base, base?
الصفحة 152 - That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time...
الصفحة 200 - Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad isles Where never human foot had marked the shore, These Ruffians left me — yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars.
الصفحة 130 - E ch'indi tutta la faretra scarchi, E che visibilmente i cori involi: Quindi il naso, per mezzo il viso scende Che non trova l'invidia, ove l'emende. 13. Sotto quel sta, quasi fra due vallette, La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro...
الصفحة 119 - Meanwhile a multitude Was in the forum, where a strife went on, — Two men contending for a fine, the price Of one who had been slain. Before the crowd One claimed that he had paid the fine, and one Denied that aught had been received, and both Called for the sentence which should end the strife.
الصفحة 203 - Hic aliud maius miseris multoque tremendum obiicitur magis, atque improvida pectora turbat. 200 Laocoon, ductus Neptuno sorte sacerdos, sollemnes taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta, (horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt; 205 pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas, pars cetera pontum pone legit sinuatque immensa volumine terga. Fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arva tenebant...

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